 Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, is covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion. Indeed, so rank and luxuriant is the growth, that Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power.  Brazil: Its Condition and Prospects - Page 94by Christopher Columbus Andrews - 1891 - 352 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...in glowing colors the obstacles which the prodigality of Nature may oppose to the progress of man. "Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - Civilization - 1857 - 882 pages
...this distinction is rarely made. Tschudi's Travels in Peru, p. 290. in any other part of the world.180 Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
 | 1858 - 604 pages
...accompanied by heat, has stimulated the soil into an activity unequalled in any other part of the world. Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
 | 1858 - 754 pages
...Buckle evinces descriptive powers of no ordinary kind. We make no apology for quoting at length:— " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...that nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of ]>ower. A great part of this immense country is tilled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1859 - 856 pages
...glowing colours the obstacles which the prodigality of Nature may oppose to the progress of man. " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...in glowing colors the obstacles which the prodigality of Nature may oppose to the progress of man. " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - France - 1857 - 886 pages
...this distinction is rarely made. Tschudis Travel* in Peru, p. 290. iii any other part of the world.100 Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
 | James William Buel - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1884 - 832 pages
...accompanied by heat, has stimulated the soil into an activity uuequaled in any other part of the world. Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests, whose noble trees, blossoming... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1890 - 526 pages
...of a lesson on "Glaciers." 16 5. (a) " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe, i» covered with a vegetation of incredible profusion....Nature seems to riot in the very wantonness of power." State briefly the causes of the profusion referred to in the foregoing passage. (6) Contrast this country... | |
 | James Vila Blake - 1891 - 308 pages
...take from Buckle an eloquent paragraph descriptive of the resistance of nature to man in Brazil : " Brazil, which is nearly as large as the whole of Europe,...the growth, that nature seems to riot in the very wantoness of power. A great part of this immense country is filled with dense and tangled forests,... | |
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